Energy

Framingham-based Ameresco reported financial gains in its fourth-quarter and full-year 2014 results.

After weeks of steadily falling to just above $2 per gallon, the average retail price for a gallon of gasoline rose another 9 cents in Central Massachusetts last week, to $2.34, according to GasBuddy.com's daily survey of 263 gas outlets in Worcester.

Sharp declines in prices for natural gas helped push the average wholesale price for electricity in New England down nearly 60 percent last month over January 2014, according to ISO-New England, which oversees the region's power grid.

American Tower Corp. announced Thursday that it is raising over $3 billion in a stock offering that will help finance fulfilling a contract with Verizon.

Massachusetts will partner with Connecticut and Rhode Island to explore new clean energy resources and natural gas capacity options to address the region's high energy costs and demands.

Energy costs fell in New England over the final three months of last year, driven by lower...

National Grid, the largest electric utility in Central Massachusetts, has joined Eversource Energy and two other energy firms as co-developers of a large-scale effort to expand existing pipeline infrastructure that will bring up to 1 billion cubic feet of natural gas to the region for electricity generation.

It was a company that was flying high until, rather suddenly, its numbers began taking a southward dive.

Sevcon of Southborough saw a 10-percent gain in revenue in the first quarter of its new fiscal year, as more of its customers bought the company's products as part of their hybrid and electric vehicles.

The private company that provides water to Millbury and Oxford is passing along savings from a revised tax classification to nearly 19,000 households, including customers in those two Central Massachusetts towns.